Gravetye Manor Hotel and Restaurant

Fantastic lunch in an amazing setting: perfect set menu, excellent food, great service made our experience hard to forget Coffee (Grand Reserve Geisha) is just unbeatable All at a very reasonable price by the way

The manor and gardens are beautiful and the modern extension for the dining room is one of the best I’ve seen. It perfectly compliments the garden and old building. We went for lunch. The appetisers of trout and cheese and truffle were a great start. Next came a lovely selection of bread with a slightly over complicated hay smoked butter. The tomato tea was excellent, The tuna starter was delicious perfectly flavoured. There was a ‘garden salad’ which was average and probably needs to be replaced with something else. All of the mains are presented on the plate in a similar way. Mine was Fallow Deer which was good although with too much Quince and the celeriac flavour was lost. Pre dessert was a very good plum sorbet. Dessert was a version of tropical Rum Baba which lacked an alcoholic kick and had far too little coconut cremeux added by the waiter. The chocolate cherry dessert was exceptional. Overall the lunch was very good but not quite as good as we expected. Was it worth just under £300 for 2 including 2 glasses of wine and service -probably not.

We enjoyed a relaxing and peaceful night away at this beautiful hotel. The gardens, which are worth a trip, still have masses of autumn colour and interest. Plenty of sofas on which to sit and read next to an open fire with a glass of sherry. Lots of pretty flowers, presumably from the garden, are placed everywhere and give a charming vibe. Restaurant, which is sort of magically embedded in the garden, is first class - the three course meal also includes a number of additional smaller courses or palette cleansers. The staff were uniformly friendly and professional. Couldn't fault the hotel. (The package which includes dinner and B and B is good value - breakfast was excellent.)

Just stayed for the fourth time. Why so often?: All Staff were very welcoming, professional and friendly. . My room (on this occasion Mulberry) was beautifully furnished and spotlessly clean. At breakfast I sat in the Restaurant overlooking the wonderful flower garden. Later I walked down to the lake, back through the meadow and up to the walled kitchen garden. There were fresh flowers from the garden throughout and on a dull autumnal morning the log fire was burning in the front hall. It all added up to a very enjoyable and relaxing stay.

We returned to Gravetye (after a gap of many years) and it was as we remembered and in many ways even better. Where to start? The gardens are exceptional and we had several wonderful walks amongst the well kept spaces. The accommodations are modern in the ways they need to be--technology, TV's and so forth, but they are other wise beautifully traditional. And spotless. The public spaces, the several spots to enjoy a drink and a fire are so comfortable. And the dining room, glass enclosed in the garden, is so beautiful only out done by the sevrice and the cuisine. Our only regret: we don't live closer so we could visit more often.